Choosing A Structure for Your Fundraising Trip
Explore six proven fundraising models for charity challenges and learn how to choose the right structure for your organization and supporters.
What is a Charity Challenge?
Explore how charity challenges engage supporters, strengthen donor relationships, and raise funds through meaningful adventure travel.
Is “Vacation Courage” a Real Thing?
The psychology of vacation courage reveals why travel makes us feel braver, more open-minded, and ready to step outside our comfort zones.
Empowering Students to Dream Big in Thailand
Elevate Destinations Buy a Trip, Give a Trip: students from a children’s home in Chiang Mai explored elephant conservation and local crafts.
Seven Years, One Laptop, and Some Very Questionable WiFi
When you look back on your life, you realize there are only a few key moments that have truly shaped it.
Sustainability Grant Funds Women-Led Conservation Project
A new sustainability grant supports regenerative agriculture and women-led enterprises in the Serengeti, linking tourism with conservation and community impact.
Is Collective Awe the Most Underrated Tool in Fundraising?
The psychology of awe explains why charity challenge participants become lifelong donors, and how you can harness it to raise more and build deeper communities.
Why Donor Trips Work: The Neuroscience Behind Donor Trips
Here’s the behavioral science that explains why firsthand experience transforms donors into long-term partners.
Why do Intentional Staff Retreats work better than Return-to-Work Mandates?
Proximity isn’t culture. Here’s what Atlassian’s research — and 50 years of psychology — says actually builds connected, high-performing teams.
Epic Islands
Elevate is narrowing in on some very special destinations and continuing the theme of avoiding mass tourism. Most recently, the Elevate team has enjoyed a mix of gorgeous island destinations during their own spring travels, returning refreshed and ready for summer.
7 Conscious Travel Trends for 2026
As we look ahead into 2026, it’s clear that conscious travel is continuing to gain traction and shaping the way we travel.
A few tips for a fine family trip
Read our best family travel tips — written by Emily Jump and her 10 year old!
Educating Rwanda’s youth through responsible travel
Through Elevate Destinations’ Buy a Trip, Give a Trip program, a group of children from the village of Mpinga ya Mugesera in Rwanda, set off on an adventure to the Burera District to see the area from a traveler’s perspective.
